Administrator

We have recently started sending out a Solicitor drafted letter to people ripping off images we have created, using them online etc without our permission, along with a £500 fee to cover our costs in protecting our copyright work
and intellectual property.

Moderator

That's what I thought, the people that would use an image without permission or credit (in the case of fair use) are not going to give a toss about this. I find some of my work scattered all over the place. Apparently if something's on Tumblr then there's an unwritten rule that it must be free to use. Some sites operating out of India and Russia are using one of my logos, passing it off as their own work in their portfolio, along with probably a lot of other people's work. Repeated attempts to ask them to remove it just fell on deaf ears, as I knew they would. The law just doesn't apply.